Dr Chua Hui Wen is a Consultant in Breast Surgery, Department of General Surgery, Sengkang General Hospital and a member of the SingHealth Duke-NUS Breast Centre. She sees patients with benign and malignant breast diseases. She uses techniques like minimally invasive breast surgeries and oncoplastic breast surgeries to improve the quality of surgeries to achieve both excellent oncological outcomes and enhanced cosmesis. She was awarded the prestigious Health Manpower Development Plan (HMDP) scholarship by Ministry of Health to further hone these skills in Kameda Medical Centre, a renowned breast centre in Japan in 2023. She is also adept at general surgical procedures such as endoscopy, open and minimally invasive gallbladder and hernia surgeries. 

Dr Chua graduated from Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2012, and entered the highly competitive general surgery residency programme after the completion of housemanship. She received her general surgery and initial breast subspecialist residency training in the National University Hospital of Singapore (NUHS) from 2013 to 2018. In this period, she completed her membership examination of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (Surgery) in 2014 and obtained the Master of Medicine (Surgery) from the National University of Singapore in 2017. She became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (General Surgery) in 2018, after passing her exit examinations and completing residency training. 

She is also heavily involved in medical student and postgraduate residency education, being the adjunct education lead for Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, in addition to her faculty duties in Lee Kong Chian Medical School, Duke-NUS medical school, SingHealth post-graduate year 1 programme, and SingHealth general surgery residency programme. She is instrumental in the set-up of the hospital clinician programme for general surgery and is the current programme director. She believes there are many routes for doctors to contribute to general surgery, be it via residency or the hospital clinician programme, and is deeply passionate about creating these opportunities. She is also key personnel in quality improvement projects in the institution to reduce the perennial bed crunch and increasing the efficacy of day surgery.

Dr Chua strongly believes in working closely alongside patients and other professionals in a multi-disciplinary team to create individualized treatment plans for patients, targeting key areas ranging from clinical to psycho-social aspects, for the best quality of life possible. She is bilingual in English and Mandarin, and fluent in Japanese as well as dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien.